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Two gentleman practice aeroplane instruction on models at an unknown location.

1st Illinois Cavalry, Troop L, in saber drill at Brownsville, Texas.

Soldiers onboard a transport ship.

Girls drum corps marches in formation while being reviewed by Navy personnel.

Sailors undergo diving training.

Navy recruits form to create a live version of their base insignia and to celebrate reaching 100,000 recruits trained at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station during World War I.

Navy recruits learn to tie knots.

A Navy recruit uses a jackknife to carve a piece for a model ship.

Portrait of John Pierik and his large family.

Portrait of Mona Desmond sitting on a bench.

Men install power lines in the countryside using mule drawn carts. The Rural Electrification Administration (REA), created in 1935, brought inexpensive electric lighting and power to rural areas across the United States.

Portrait of actress Madge Aiston sitting on a couch in long dress, hat, gloves, and boots.

Seventeen women of the Ku Klux Klan pose for a group picture. Women first joined the ranks of the Klan in the mid 1860s. Formed in 1923, during the national revival of the Klan, the Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK) was headquartered in Little Rock,…

Two couples pose in a horse drawn buggy outside the Lincoln Home.

The Clarkson &Mitchell Drugstore Onyx soda fountain, located at 5th and Monroe, Springfield. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it was common for drugstores like Clarkson &Mitchell to feature a soda fountain in their establishment to…

Miss Adele Gehrmann, daughter of prominent Springfield businessman Charles A. Gehrmann, sits outside the Gehrmann mansion located at 1021 N. 3rd St., Springfield.

Barney Oldfield, an automobile racing pioneer, sits in his race car at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. The dirt racetrack at the Illinois State Fair was considered to be one of the fastest in the world.

Illinois National Guard doctors and orderlies, 8th infantry, at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

African American soldiers and white officers of the Illinois National Guard, 8th infantry, Company B, at Camp Lincoln in Springfield.

View while standing on Adams Street and looking north on 5th Street in Springfield.

A prisoner takes a cigarette break amidst potted plants and caged birds.

Guards line up prisoners in the cell house in preparation for Sunday dinner.

A prisoner and an armed guard pose at the west gate entrance.

Menard contained one of the three electric chairs used for executions in Illinois. The other chairs were located at Stateville and the Cook County Jail in Chicago.

A prisoner operates a textile machine at the Stateville textile mill.